Lest anyone should decide to base a trip to DC on this account, I should say, when I recently visited, while there were a couple of times I did feel like this, there were other times when it was actually really cool. The Park Rangers that work in places like the Washington Monument of Fords’ Theater for example, were fantastic. For every tour guide I encountered who was clearly rattling off the script they memorized for the twentieth time that morning, there were plenty more who clearly loved what they did an brought that to their delivery and the information they shared.